Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm

“You’ve become stronger than before.” Losing to Jiang Li, the First Emperor didn’t show much disappointment.

He knew this outcome all along.

Although he had trained hard for the past ten years, the other man had been training too, and the gap between them persisted, impossible to level out.

The First Emperor had even considered training in other worlds where time flows differently, but it was to no avail.

He was too strong, with a self-sustaining cycle within him, impervious to time changes in the outside world.

The same was true for Jiang Li.

With his hands behind his back, Jiang Li strolled through the void, “Before seeing you, I went to Nine Provinces first. Whether I should say you did well, or you did terribly, I can’t tell.”

“What I want to say is, you’re no longer the Jiang Li of the Blue Star.”

“You’re immersed in power, influenced by your past life, assimilated by the law of the jungle, no longer confiding in anyone, and no one is your friend.”

“The enemy implies death, subjects imply obedience to you.”

“Bai Hongtu and Yu Yin, they were both your good friends when you were a candidate for the Human Emperor. Now Bai Hongtu has become your subject, and Yu Yin has become a tool for you to flaunt your power.”

“You carry yourself high above, supreme, ruling over all the worlds, with no one or anything to restrict you.”

Jiang Li could understand the choices and character of the First Emperor.

After all, who didn’t think of being king of the world when they were young, being the end of it all, Jiang Li had thought so too, and even written novels about it.

However, Jiang Li chose to suppress this thought and practice his own righteousness.

The First Emperor chose to amplify his desires and practice his righteousness at the same time.

The First Emperor was also a person yearning for order, otherwise, he wouldn’t have unified Nine Provinces and enforced law forcefully.

“Being unbound, this is true freedom.” The First Emperor admitted that what Jiang Li said was right.

Jiang Li shook his head, “Are you really free? If you’re free, why are you still dressed, why are you still speaking the language of Nine Provinces, why are you still obsessed with the throne?”

“Even if nobody restricts you, your thoughts are controlling your actions.”

“Where do thoughts come from? They come from the education you’ve received, they come from the environment around you.”

“The dean led us to understand the law, the first class from the jurisprudence professor made us start thinking about the meaning of the law, Professor Confucius made us delve deeply into research and thinking… These are the sources of our thoughts, they make us believe this world can achieve justice and fairness.”

“And then, you were trapped by power and died, came to Nine Provinces, and thought that this was a world where the strong preyed on the weak.”

Jiang Li paused, turned around, and looked directly at the First Emperor, “First Emperor, are you so easily influenced by your surroundings?”

“You seem to be free, uncontrolled, but in fact, you are restrained everywhere.”

The First Emperor was cold-faced, neither affirming nor denying, not saying anything, and seemingly not thinking about anything.

As for what he really thought about, only the First Emperor knew.

Jiang Li continued, “There is no real freedom in this world, this is the reasoning I realized after coming to Nine Provinces.”

The First Emperor was silent, he lay quietly in the void, his eyes slightly closed, and after a long time, he finally asked.

“You said that I was trapped by power and died. How… did I die?”

Jiang Li shook his head helplessly, knowing that the First Emperor encountered the same problem as him, “Have you tried to find Blue Star?”

The First Emperor suddenly sat up, “Of course, I also want to repay the dean for fostering me, and for Professor Feng’s mentorship! I wanted revenge too!”

“But I didn’t find Blue Star.”

Jiang Li nodded and told the First Emperor a surprising result, “I found it.”

“Where?”

“Let’s finish up in the Orange Heart World first, then I’ll take you to Blue Star.”

When the two returned to the Orange Heart World, all the elders of the Divinity Transformation Stage quietly stood aside, waiting for the two to lecture.

They did not yet have the qualifications to watch the fight. But from the First Emperor’s demeanor, they knew that the strength of these two surpassed their understanding, terrifyingly strong.

The world of cultivation has always respected the strong.

Jiang Li was not polite, and he cheerfully told them the truth about the revival of spiritual energy.

“The Orange Heart World entering the End of Dharma Era is a conspiracy of the Immortal Realm. In the End of Dharma era, cultivators hide, and mortals advance technology.”

“When the spiritual energy revives, cultivators come out of seclusion and compete with mortals for the world, resulting in conflicts.”

“The conflict escalates, and only blood can stop the war.”

“Not to mention the sudden appearance of those who gained power, these people’s personalities vary, and they suddenly obtain power, which is also the root cause of the world’s chaos.”

Having seen more of the Immortal Realm’s methods of annihilating worlds, Jiang Li could vaguely guess the Immortal Realm’s tactics.

Accumulating conflicts, and escalating conflicts are the most commonly used methods by the Immortal Realm, and they are very effective. A large part of the already destroyed worlds fell to this method.

“You’ve fallen into a trap set by the Immortal Realm. If you persist in your delusions and fight amongst yourselves, then no one can save you.”

The cultivators at the Divinity Transformation Stage quickly nodded.

The First Emperor impatiently asked, “Why bother talking to them, wait until I send a few from the Body Integration Realm over and we’ll see who dares to cause trouble.”

It’s oh too evident, the First Emperor’s methods were simple and brutish, but they worked.

Jiang Li didn’t stay in the Orange Heart World, he redeemed his promise and brought the First Emperor to Zhou Tian’s World.

“The Blue Star we come from, is one of the hundred and fifty civilizations in Zhou Tian’s world.”

Once they landed, the First Emperor stared blankly at the desolate sight of his hometown.

“What happened?”

“Why ask when you already know, you already have the answer in your heart.”

The First Emperor fell silent, indeed, his hometown had been destroyed, who else could have done it, it must have been the Immortal Realm.

“To be precise, it was the First Generation Baize Emperor, Du Ye ambassador.”

“Him again!” The First Emperor was enraged. Blue Star was his first hometown, and Nine Provinces was his second. But whether it was his first or second hometown, Du Ye’s shadow was everywhere.

He must have his revenge! When he ascends to the Immortal Realm, he will make Du Ye wish he was dead!

“Let’s go, I’ll take you to visit our dean.”

The two came to the orphanage, where it all began. There was the tombstone of the dean, and their tombstones.

The First Emperor squatted on the ground, his thumb rubbing against the dean’s tombstone, his body somewhat stiff.

“How… did she die?”

Jiang Li sighed, “Don’t think too much, she died of old age.”

Jiang Li said, a bit lost, “Even though time runs differently, more than two hundred and sixty years have passed on the Blue Star. Two hundred years is not that long for cultivators, but for mortals, it’s already seven or eight generations. Those you wanted to repay or revenge are all gone in time, no one is left.”

“You wanted to know how we died, right? Come with me.”

They walked on the desolate land in silence, each of them quiet, like greeting their past selves, or mourning.

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